Bongo Flava (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bongo Flava. Hip hop culture in Tanzania |
| Country of production | Germany , Tanzania |
| original language | English , Swahili |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Gabriel Hacke , Anna Roch |
| production | Gabriel Hoe |
| music | Big Dog Posse, G-Solo, Professor Jay |
| camera | Gabriel Hacke, Max Vogel, Jürg Endres |
| cut | Gabriel Hacke, Anna Roch |
Bongo Flava is a German documentary about the same hip-hop culture in Tanzania by Gabriel hoe and Anna Roch from the year 2004. The film was on the 21 video / film days with the price of the State Center for Political Education Rheinland-Pfalz awarded and ran at the Munich EthnoFilmFest as well as in some selected cinemas. The cinema premiere was on February 3, 2004 in the Mon Ami cinema in Weimar . In March 2008 the film ran several times in the ZDFdoku program . The music videos "Majobless" and "Nyumbani ni Nyumbani" produced during the shooting were shown on the program Unicato on MDR and on Tanzanian television.
content
The enthusiasm of the youth of Tanzania for their image of Afro-American hip-hop is the starting point for the Bongo Flava phenomenon . The film shows how a form of urban youth culture unfolds in Tanzania , which has meanwhile become a major social force and surpasses all other African musical styles in terms of cassette sales. In the film, the viewer gets to know the stars and starlets of the Tanzanian hip-hop scene and learns why these people live in poverty despite their obvious success.
background
The film was made as part of an ethnographic research project on hip-hop culture in Tanzania at the Institute for Ethnology at the Free University of Berlin . In 2001 and 2002, the authors spent a total of six months on site with the cultural practice of Bongo Flava . They gained insights by observing, occasionally living together with various Tanzanian rap musicians.
criticism
"An unobtrusive, very closely observing documentary film that convinces through the friendly closeness to its protagonists and through the ethnographic penetration of its subject."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 21st video / film days - documentation. Cultural Directorate of the City of Gera / Festival Office, archived from the original on January 9, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c program booklet Münchner EthnoFilmFest. (PDF) State Museum of Ethnology, Munich, p. 5 , archived from the original on August 22, 2013 ; accessed on January 9, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Cinema and TV. Movie website, accessed January 9, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Homepage: Bongo Flava. Retrieved January 9, 2014 .
- ^ BDP - Majobless. Retrieved January 9, 2014 .